Machine learning and networking ushering in new era

Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., looked into potential pitfalls associated with enterprise security teams collecting ever-increasing reams of data. ESG research indicates that 38% of organizations collect more than 10 TB of data every month, primarily from firewall logs, network devices, antivirus and user activity logs. "Let's face it, well-intentioned security teams are being buried by data today. They go through heroic efforts and do what they can, but there is an obvious and logical outcome here: As security data volume grows, security professionals will only be able to derive an incremental amount of value," Oltsik said. For organizations swamped with security data, Oltsik recommends making data available through standard APIs or putting data in standard formats such as the Common Information Model used by Splunk.